Loading device.



No. 832,655. PATENTED OUT. 9, 1906. W. H. GOMPTON. LOADING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov.21, 1905.

Winn/570774020,

Inventor- Attorneys UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

LOADING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed November 21,1905. Serial No. 288,407.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. COMPTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fargo, in the county of Cass and State of North Dakota, have invented a new and useful Loading Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to loading apparatus for handling sand, gravel, and other material requiring to be elevated and loaded upon wagons; and the objects of the invention are to simplify and improve the construction and operation of this class of devlces.

With these and other ends in view, which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations, and modifications within the scope of the invention may be made when desired.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the improved -loading apparatus. Fig. 2 is a perspective detail view of the lifting-bail used in connection with an ordinary fork for loading purposes. Fig. 3 is a perspective-detail view showing the connecting-staple detached. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a specially-constructed loading-fork. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are indicated throughout by similar characters of reference.

The improved loading device includes a frame structure E and a hoisting apparatus H. For the hoisting apparatus it is intended to use, when available, the hoisting apparatus which forms a part of the improved post-driving apparatus for which Letters Patent of the United States have been granted to myself on June 14, 1904, No. 762,385,

and on June 13,1905,No.792,249;but when.

this apparatus is not available a special hoisting apparatus will be constructed on the lines illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, by reference to which it will be seen that said apparatus includes a pair of uprights 1 1, connected at their upper ends by a cross-bar 2, with the ends of which are connected inclined braces 3 3, said braces supporting a winding drum or reel 4 and operating means for said reel, including a shaft 5, having a crank 6 and a pinion 7, meshing with a spurwheel 8 upon the reel-shaft, which may thus be rotated. The cross-piece 2 supports a guide-pulley 9, and an additional guide-pulley 10 is supported near the base of one of the uprights.

The framework E includes a pair of legs or supports 11, rising from a base or-support 12 and connected at their upper ends by a crossbar 13 and at a suitable distance above the ground by an intermediate cross-bar 14. Connected with the cross-bar 13, as by means of braces 15, is a cap-beam 16, supporting a guide-pulley 17. The cross-bar 14 supports the upper end of an inclined plane or slide 18, the lower end of which rests upon the ground, the upper end of said slide being supported at an elevation which will enable it to extend slightly above the box of a wagon which may be driven beneath the hoisting apparatus, between the uprights 1 1, and supporting members 11 11 into position for being loaded.

A flexible hoisting element 19, which is guided over the pulleys 17 and 9, may have one end attached to the winding-drum 4, whereby the hoisting apparatus may be manually operated, or it may, as shown in the drawings, be guided over the pulley 10 to the point of attachment of draft, which may be of any desired character. Connected with the free end of the hoisting element 19 is a bail 2O which. is twisted toform an attachingring 21 and the ends of which are provided with eyes 22, pivotally engaging pintles 23 upon the ends of a cross-bar 24, which supports the head 25 of agathering member, such as an ordinary large manure-fork, having tines 26 and a handle 27, which extends through a staple 28, the arms of which pass through perforations in the cross-bar 24, with which said staple is "connected by nuts 29. In this manner the fork is connected with and supported by the cross-bar, so that when draft is applied it may be handled in the manner of an ordinary scraper to accumulate a load of manure, after which the handle is over the ground and up the inclined plane 18, upon reaching the upper edge of which the fork may be uptilted to discharge the load. The draft is then'released, thus enabling the l fork to be carried back for a repetition of the depressed so as to cause the tines to slide 1 ing-fork which is provided with a permanent loop or bail 30, to which the hoisting-rope may be attached.

Within the scope of the invention a suitable scraper may be used in place of the fork, and such scraper will obviously be substituted for the fork whenever the nature of the material operated upon makes such substitution necessary or desirable.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed, the operation and advantages of this invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which it appertains. The construction of the apparatus is extremely simple, and it may be operated at a great saving of time and expense in the loading of manure and similar material.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. In a loading apparatus, a bail having a pivoted cross-bar provided with astaple, and a handled gathering member having its head s u pported upon the cross-bar and its handle extended through the staple.

2. In a loading apparatus, the combination withhoisting means and an inclined plane or slide, of a bail connected with the hoisting means and having eyes at the ends thereof; a cross-bar pivoted upon said eyes; a handled gathering member having a head supported upon the cross-bar; and a staple connected detachably with the cross-bar and engaging the handle of the gathering member.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. COMPTON.

Witnesses:

ROBERT WATsoN, J. H. ARNELL. 

